I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSI was always laughing in church.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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